Google Sites now open to everyone — A few months ago we launched Google Sites exclusively as part of Google Apps for companies and organizations that wanted to use the service on their own domains. Now we've made it easy for anyone to set up a website to share all types of information …

Google Sites for everyone: GeoCities 2.0? — Google announced on its official blog late Wednesday that Google Sites, its simplified Web site creation service, is now available to any registered Google user. — Previously, only businesses with Google Apps accounts and their own domains had had access to Google Sites.

Twitter VC Funding Done, Raises $15M — I spent most of the day digging up more information on Twitter and its new round of funding that I reported last night. The update is that Twitter reached an agreement with investors today to raise $15 million in funding at around $80 million pre-money valuation.

ABC soups up online video player — LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC.com is souping up its full-episode broadband player with new features for the fall. — Among the bells and whistles set for the broadcaster's online destination are full-screen viewing, closed captioning and the ability …

How to Use Social Media for Social Change — Did you participate in the Twit-Out yesterday? Do you even know what that is? To get you up to speed, a handful of Twitter users, fed up with the regular outages of their favorite service, decided to band together to show Twitter some tough love by boycotting the service for a day.

Gamer anger at Nokia's ‘lock in’ — Gamers have hit out at Nokia after learning that N-Gage titles bought for their handsets are locked to that specific device forever. — If a gamer changes or upgrades to a diferent Nokia handset they have to purchase the games again if they want to continue playing.

UK to streamline identity theft with data retention proposal — The British government is developing a proposal to centralize the data-retention practices of UK communications firms. Under current law, communications providers are required to retain certain kinds of data about their customers for a year …

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